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Anyone ever take the Maser out of their microwave oven?

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Catwell over 14 years ago
This may be an odd question, but have you ever took a microwave maser out and used it for anything?

A friend of mine once told me he wants to take one and attach it to the front of his car to "punish" people who cut him off. After turning my lunch to near plasma, I don't think I would want a microwave maser point at me.

Maybe a red light camera "de-activator" is in the midst.

Cabe
 
update:
MASER stands for "Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation."
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  • R_Phoenix
    R_Phoenix over 14 years ago in reply to Former Member +2
    Speaking if Re-useing, one of my simple projects http://www.jassper.com/other/project.pdf
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    R_Phoenix over 14 years ago +1
    I didn't see any Magnets in the Microwave I took apart. Are they inside the Maser?
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    Former Member over 14 years ago

    1st of all, folks, let's be rational, we're talking a NON-Functional microwave oven. (read: Inert).. No power applied.. thus, the maser is not radiating ANY radiation.

     

    To answer R_Phoenix, Yes, they usually are within the cage of the maser itself.  sometimes side by side (can't remember the maker,  but 1-inch diameter, 3.5-Inch long bar magnets.) and sometimes, top & bottom of the device.. (if you look inside the cage of the maser, you'll see two 'Doughnut' magnets on the top & bottom.)

    (See insert photo for example.)image

     

    Dismantling the maser, without opening the  internal tube, You can retrieve the magnets.  As I've said, I've done it many times, scrapping dead and non-functioning microwave ovens, as well scavengening the control panels for electronic devices.

     

    There was a video on YouTube, where someone tried to show how putting a pile of popcorn kernals between two cell phones, caused enough radiation to pop the popcorn..  However, the hoax was revealed, that the person had put a functioning maser under the table, under the pile of kernals.. (I can imagine the person is looking forward to some serious health problems as he continued using the hoax.)

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    WestfW over 14 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Sigh.  It's still not a MASER.  That's part of the problem; if it were a MASER there would be a nice beam and you could take some comfort in not standing where the beam goes.  But it's just a somewhat directional Microwave emitter (a "Magnetron") that has about the same resemblence to a MASER that a floodlight has to a LASER.

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    Former Member over 14 years ago in reply to WestfW

    Thank you, West. Now, it we retrieve the magnets from the maser, lol. just kidding... Some nice strong magnets would make it well worth a few minutes of disassembly.. Last night I took a look around to inventory what I could re-use out old devices. I noticed for example there was a lot of modems and routers I could potentially re-use for completely different purposes, by reprogramming the firmware for example. We should start a thread on recycling projects, and avoid the red flags with more purposeful ideas.

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    R_Phoenix over 14 years ago in reply to Former Member

    Speaking if Re-useing, one of my simple projects

    http://www.jassper.com/other/project.pdf

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    Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to R_Phoenix

    Nice project there , much more productive than trying to build a number plate melter fromn an old microwave.

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    Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to R_Phoenix

    Nice project there , much more productive than trying to build a number plate melter fromn an old microwave.

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